Wednesday, 30 December 2015

A little snippet here of classic TV graphics from an anniversary on RTL, which includes some video mixer feedback effects and some very familiar EMS Spectron/Spectre shapes, blink and you will miss them!

Sunday, 6 September 2015

Here are some shots of early XR2206 based video VCO experiments, the important thing with video is getting sync pulses from your SPG in to a format that your oscillator circuit wants to sync to, some are fine with narrow pulses some want a nice clean saw wave or for the pulse to hit a certain voltage threshold. This means if you don't have the skills to attempt at modifying whatever SPG or VCO you have chosen you will need sync conditioning circuits to sit in between getting the two to talk nicely.

Sunday, 21 June 2015

Dan Bucciano recently posted this fantastic clip to the discussion group so I thought I would share. It's some lovley black and white feedback processed with a color solarizer prototype he designed around 20 years ago.

Sunday, 14 June 2015

Here is something you don't see every day a Amiga Video Toaster/ Atari Falcon based video synthesizer with multiple other signal paths going on, thanks to Matthew McConnell for the upload!http://www.tecterran.com/sonovista Not your standard analogue set up and much closer to systems from the mid 90s

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

So I got together with Psyché Tropes to put on an event at apiary studios on the 4th of April, it should be interesting and mostly modular! There will be me and two of my favourite video syntheists doing video and three great musicians doing audio, hopefully with some cross patching for added fun and audio reactivity.

Psyché Tropes is a label from the creator of Hackney Film Festival dedicated to exploring the synaesthetic intersections between sound and its visual counterpart. The label’s second live edition sees a collaborative event with Video Circuits combining the realms of audio and video modular synthesis with a very special line-up. Video Circuits is a blog and research project that takes a wide ranging approach to documenting the early years of electronic video art, visual music and computer art with a view to informing the current output of contemporary artists and musicians working in the field.

Live modular shows by

SCANNER
AUDIO DEPENDENT
THE ASTERISM

Live video modular by

ALEXANDER PEVERETT
SYNTHPUNK
CHRIS KING

with Psyché Tropes djs

SCANNER
British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen. http://scannerdot.com/

AUDIO DEPENDENT
Audio Dependent is the electronic music alias of audio visual artist, Tim Cowie. A long-time collaborator at The Light Surgeons, Cowie’s music and sound design work crosses over from electronica and techno, to contemporary classical and ambient soundscapes. He also releases music under his own name and as part of the duo Infinite Particles.https://soundcloud.com/audio-dependent

THE ASTERISM
The Asterism is a semi-improvised solo modular synth and electronics project from Mark O Pilkington (Raagnagrok / Urthona / Teleplasmiste), constructed around organic rhythmic developments and blurring the lines between natural and unnatural sounds.https://soundcloud.com/the-asterism

ALEXANDER PEVERETT
Alexander Peverett (b.1976) is a multi-disciplinary artist from Wigan, England. He resides in Japan and the United Kingdom. His personal work explores the fields of electronic & computer music, video art, multi-media installation, generative art and computer graphics. He works as a freelance Art Director, Computer Artist, Sound Designer and Video Director.http://alexanderpeverett.com/

SYNTHPUNK
Synthpunk is a musician, engineer and video synthesist. His wide ranging skills and interests manifest themselves in many different ways one of which is his self-built modular video synthesizer.http://synth-punk.blogspot.co.uk/

I got to see Sabrina and Roger's amazing performance at the BFI on the 13th, here are some awful photos of Sabrina's beautiful imagery and a video Rosa took of their fantastic performance at Sonic Acts 2015 so you can also hear the incredible sounds too, even if it is a different set.

I found some photos from the semi regular EAVI night from November where Ewa played which reminded me to post up some of her work and a link to her great site. She often pefromes with hacked CRT televisions and Optoelectronic noise circuits, so there is a great synchronicity of sound and image. ewajustka.tumblr.com

Monday, 9 March 2015

So I am pretty excited to see Le Révélateur perform as part of Digital Québec, I am a great appreciator of all their work so far, both Sabrina and Rodger make some of the most beautiful work around. Link!

8 UK PREMIERES OVER TWO CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS AT THE BFI SOUTHBANK - MARCH 12 & 13

BFI Southbank’s regular Sonic Cinema strand teams up with ELEKTRA and MUTEK, two vibrant organisations from Québec, to present a bold and ambitious series of live audiovisual performances, featuring 8 UK Premieres over two consecutive nights.

Dubbed Digital Québec, some of the province’s most innovative and experimental A/V creators will be presenting their work for the very first time on British soil. Acting as a continuation of the combined ELEKTRA and MUTEK 15th anniversary event EM15 presented in Montréal in May 2014, the selection of works represent the interdisciplinary intersection of music, sound and digital art where both organizations meet.

Monday, 2 March 2015

A recent article on Paleofuture brought to my attention the work of C.E. Burnett an engineer at RCA's research lab during the 1930s. This must be a very early example of cathode ray tubes being used for pattern generation and certainly predates many more well known media art pioneers. I wonder if he ever spoke to Ben F. Laposky another early pioneer in a related technique.

Zoran Radovic has been working with pendulums, plotters, lasers and CRT displays since the 1960s. A recent post by an online friend highlighted the fact that his studio is being sold off, I noticed some plotter art on the wall which lead me to check out his great site detailing his fantastic work. www.radovic-art.de he details his various systems building on his ideas and demonstrating how some of his systems work. Please go read his site for more info!

This is a blog for and about electronic video artists & related information. ...................................................... All work is copyright to the respective artists. I do not directly upload content, want me to take a link down, or contribute? just ask! ......................................................Sometimes I post my own experiments. My videos are created without the aid of desktop computers (for image generation) utilising many different techniques informed by the video art of the 1970/80s and broadcast technologies related to that time. I am also interested in early drawn sound and visual music pioneers, media archaeology, abstract film, and graphic scores etc .